Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.logic,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.cognitive
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news4.ner.bbnplanet.net!news3.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!utgpu!pindor
From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: FIRST order? was: why Ginsberg grouses
Message-ID: <DBMC38.1I5@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCC Public Access
References: <804460135snz@longley.demon.co.uk> <95Jul4.004414edt.6061@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <3tuu8q$bvs@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <95Jul12.141104edt.6164@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:42:44 GMT
Lines: 26
Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:31428 sci.logic:12258 comp.ai.philosophy:30014 sci.cognitive:8256

In article <95Jul12.141104edt.6164@neat.cs.toronto.edu>,
Calvin Bruce Ostrum <cbo@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
.....................
>No kidding.  However, making predictions is important.  I don't
>believe folk psychology is as bad at this as some people say.  An
>honest person's announcement that he seriously intends to do some
 ^^^^^^
>complex activity within his power is the kind of thing we rely upon
>all the time.
>
And who is "an honest person"? Perhaps someone who's "announcements that he 
seriously intends to do some complex activity in his power" can be relied
upon? One could hardly think of a better example of circularity of ascription
of intentions to people.
Or perhaps "an honest person" is someone who's past behavior has shown that
his/her announcements are well correlated with a subsequent behavior?
Sounds very behavioristic to me.

>Calvin Ostrum                                            cbo@cs.toronto.edu

Andrzej
-- 
Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
University of Toronto                 not what they think; the wise reject
Instructional and Research Computing  what they think and not what they see.
pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po
